$6.5 billion capital campaign is launched by Harvard.

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BOSTON -- Harvard University launched a $6.5 billion capital campaign Saturday that, if successful, would be the largest fundraising effort in the history of higher education.

The school said the campaign had broad goals spanning all its schools and would fund research into neuroscience, stem cell science and low-cost energy for the developing world.

The campaign would target major renovations of the university's undergraduate housing and increase its study of new learning and teaching strategies.

It also aims to expand the school's global presence, including through an ongoing project to...